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German Unification
Gathering there to proclaim Wilhelm 1 of Prussia as german emperor after the French capitulation in the franco-prussian war -
Arms race
the buildup of nuclear weapons and conventional military force by both of the united states and its allies -
Hitlers Beer Hall Putsch
where he went to a bar and fired a shot which stunned people, he got taken down and was arrested. he was shocked people didn't listen -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime. -
Germany Invades Poland
When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany. -
Winter War
The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union. -
Axis Alliance
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance. -
US declares war
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina -
The British Bomb
The British bomb Köln (Cologne), bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble. -
Battle of Midway
Following the attack on Peal Harbor, Japanese armies rolled over Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies. The war in the Pacific was fought on land, at sea, and in the air. -
D-day
General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. -
Paris
Paris is liberated from German Control -
Yalta Conference
also known as the Crimea conference and code named the Argonaut Conference was the world war 2 meeting held of the heads of government of the US, UK, and soviet union for purpose of discussing europes postwar reorganization. -
Hiroshima and Nagaski
The Japanese fought on even after the war in Europe ended. Truman decided to use the newly developed atomic bomb to end the war quickly and prevent more U.S. casualties. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Europe in which US gave 12 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies. the plan was in operation for 4 years -
Berlin Airlift
end of the second world war, US, British and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany -
Berlin Blockade
one of the first major international crises of the cold war. soviet union blocked the western allies railroad, road, and canal access to the sectors of berlin under western control -
Joseph Stalin's death
suffered from arterio-scleirosis, this may have exacerbated his temper, which became even more savage when we grew older. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist party. which was his first step to rise in power -
Space Race
20th-century competition between two cold war rivals, the soviet union and the united states for supremacy in spaceflight capability -
Vietnam War
Vietnam war was between communist north Vietnam and capitalist south Vietnam which commenced in 1964 and concluded 1975 -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 u-2 incident occurred with Dwight D. Eisenhower being president on may 1st 1960. when a US u-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched became the invasion at the bay of pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
30 years the berlin wall was the defining symbol of the cold war where it separated families and keeping the people from jobs and expanding opportunities -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis and the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanestan
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
elected General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991. -
INF Treaty
intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty agreement between US and soviet union -
USSR breakup
soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin. Mikhail resigned as presient of Soviet Union
